-It gives me a deep comforting sense that all things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
-Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
-Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
-No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
-The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble…. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shove of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of the honest worker.
-I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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